Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 19:26:25 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy> To: freebsd-doc Cc: bde Subject: [gnt]roff and trailing whitespace Message-ID: <199811270326.TAA05841@hub.freebsd.org>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
The manual page for 'mdoc.samples' says:
Trailing Blank Space Characters
Troff can be confused by blank space characters at the end of a line. It
is a wise preventive measure to globally remove all blank spaces from
<blank-space><end-of-line> character sequences. Should the need arise to
force a blank character at the end of a line, it may be forced with an
unpaddable space and the `\&' escape character. For example,
`string\ \&'.
Yet I find that most of our manual pages suffer from this malady. Is it
really a serious problem that is worth correcting?
Koshy
<jkoshy@freebsd.org>
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199811270326.TAA05841>